Credits
Written and Directed By Toshiki Yashiro
Producer - Nick Jones, Eucari
Cinematography - Hans Bobanovits
Editor and Sound Design - Andy Nagashima
Production Design - Agnes Nata
Wardrobe Stylist - Taka J. Shirasawa
Assistant Director - Mariana Pisani
1st AC - Yuji Suzuki
2nd AC - Sarah Sanui
Production Assistant - Henry Buckley , Joshua Skrinner
Gaffer - Hemant Singh
Hair and Makeup - Moe Hikida
Colorist - @fmlik
Cast
Taxi Driver - Roger Sonomura
Drunk Man - Sho Mineo
Man in Suit/Robber 2 - Koshi Uehara
High School Girl 1 - Lucia Karigome
High School Girl 2 - Ichie
Yakuza Man - Eigo Tanaka
Police Officer (female) - Ami Tsuchida
Police Officer (male) - Naoyuki Fernandez
Robber 1 - Naoyuki Miyahara
Getaway Driver - Milton Penhaligon
Laundromat Girl - Emi Haskell
Nerdy Man - Masahiro Sawa
Pervy Man - Hideki Ogishita
Special Thanks to
Capsule Rentals Tokyo (@capsule.rentals)
PUMP Management Tokyo (@pump_mgmt_tokyo)
Condor Taxi Services
Move On Japan
Play Bus Services
Animated Cover Art by Zhao Yan
Music by Cold World
Awards & Recognition
Slamdance Film Festival 2024
Brooklyn Film Festival 2023
Ivano-Frankivsk International Short Film Festival 4:3 - Jury Prize Winner
Venezia Shorts Festival 2023 - Semifinalist
Indie Shorts Awards Cannes 2023 - Semifinalist
JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival 2023
Hollywood Shorts Fest 2023
Art by Zhao Yan
EMME
A poem about trust and trauma.
Emme and Kyle are short on cash. They decide to finally sell their car to a buyer who takes them to a secluded place for the exchange. The couple has no choice but to go through with it.
Festivals
Indie Short Fest 2019 LA - Finalist
Pitch to Screen Festival 2019 NYC - Finalist
NewFilmmakers 2019 NYC - Finalist
Hollywood Just4Shorts Film Festival 2019 LA - Finalist
BLOW-UP International Arthouse Film Festival 2019 LA - Finalist
Genre Celebration Festival 2019 Tokyo - Winner
Gold Movie Awards 2020 London UK - Best Director / Best Score / Best Cinematography Nom - Finalist
ARPA Film Festival 2020 Los Angeles CA
Conflict No.1
The perspective is placed where the realities of the internal bleeds into the external. To what extent can he influence his internalized reality when it begins to merge with the external world? The two versions of his own identity comes to violent interactions when he seeks to be truly one.
Written and directed by Toshiki Yashiro
Grand Prize Winner at MFA Boston Film Festival